Are you driven by making an Impact to the on-going clean energy transition? Looking for creating a career in Wind Energy? Are you aspiring enough to be future entrepreneurs in clean energy? Learn about creating a Vision in Wind Energy, the struggles & challenges I went through over the last 6 years. Map your career pathways in wind energy. What goes into the design of Offshore Wind Farms? Have you heard of Systems Thinking before?

1. Going Where the Wind Blows Vision2Action
Horns Rev Wind Farm | Denmark

2. Vision
• To Inspire people & develop Next. Generation
Thought Leaders
• To work towards climate change
• To bring social impact
Courtesy: Google Images

3. High School- College
• Last rank in my 12th std (377/500). Dropped out of college in the 1st
year, joined Amrita afterwards
• Notorious
• An avg 6 CGPA student, backbench boys
• Non conformist. Breaking rules was the only thing I was good at
• Organized tournaments, made good friends, did projects together
just for some fun and tech- fest cash (ANOKHA)
• Was part of a crazy gang, made a good and bad name in Amrita.
Got into R&D after undergraduate (rebels will always find a way
out)
• The only thing we did during college days & afterwards was to
keep working on ideas relentlessly
• Just Persist

4. My Journey in Wind
Energy so far
• Amrita (2010-14)
• Vaata (2014-17)
• Eindhoven (2017-18)
• Delft (2018-19)
• ECN < TNO (2019)

5. Courtesy: UNEP

6. Opportunities
• Turbine Research
• Wind Resource Assessment
• Utility Grid Integration
• Energy Storage
• O&M
• Supply Chain & Logistics
Courtesy: European Technology & Innovation Platform on Wind Energy (ETIP)

8. Technology- Specialization Themes
Land- based
Wind
Offshore Wind
Distributed
Wind
Grid
Integration
Market
Acceleration
Manufacturing Digitalization

9. What goes into design of wind farms.?
https://www.scribd.com/document/377075914/Design-of-150-MW-Offshore-Wind-Farm
https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy12osti/52616.pdf
Courtesy: NREL

10. Steps
Involved in
the Design
of an
Offshore
Wind Farm
Step 10 Economics
Step 9 Operations & Maintenance
Step 8 Gird Connection
Step 7 Environmental Impact Assessment
Step 6 Layout Design
Step 5 Support Structure Design
Step 4 Turbine Selection
Step 3 Development & Planning
Step 2 Data Processing of Wind Resource
Step 1 Site Selection

11. Career Pathways in Wind Energy
https://www.energy.gov/eere/wind/wind-career-map

12. Skills/ Mindset to
develop
• Systems Engineering (Holistic, Multidisciplinary, Value Driven, Life cycle)
• Applied Research Skills
• Industry Conditions
• Sustainable Development for/ in Wind Energy

13. Creating the Future
• Build a community of friends who you can create a
life along
• Think Long-term
• Pursue Sustainability, Circular Economy,
Renewable Energy
• Build a specialization that you want to be good at
Courtesy: Google Images

14. Things you guys can already
start pursuing in India
Renewable Energy
Competitions/Hackathons
Organize/ Participate
Renewable Energy
Symposiums &Conferences
RenewableEnergy
Internships
Industrial Visits to Wind
Energy Facilities in India
Ask your college to start
electives on windenergy
Pester your professors for
projects & internships.Ask
them to be part of NIWE’s
Pan- India Research
Network
Courtesy: Google Images

15. Start Collaborating with all yourDepartments
Faculty of Aerospace Engineering
Faculty of Civil Engineering
Faculty of Electrical, Mathematics & Computer Science Engineering
Faculty of Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Faculty of Management

16. • Vaata Smart Ltd
• MNRE, Wind Energy Division
• NIWE’s Small Wind Turbine Workshops
• Auroville Renewable Energy Initiatives (http://www.minvayu.org/)
• Avantgardeinnovations (https://www.avantgardeinnovations.com/)
• And ofcourse, all the big names in the Industry (Vestas,
SiemensGamesa, Enercon, Envision, GE, Suzlon, Senvion, Inox,
Nordex, RRB, EWT)

17. General Resources for beginningyour
Journey
• 50 BREAKTHROUGHS- Critical Scientific and Technological advances
needed for sustainable global development
(http://50breakthroughs.org/)
• EngineeringForChange
• Global Opportunity Report
• Niti Aayog
• World Business Council for Sustainable Development
• World Energy Council
• IRENA
• IEA
• Solving Problems that Matter (and Getting Paid for It)

18. Wind Energy
Design Tools
• NREL Wind Energy Software's
(https://nwtc.nrel.gov/)
• FUSEDWIND- Framework for Unified Systems
Engineering and Design of Wind Energy Plants
(https://github.com/FUSED-Wind)
• Qblade (https://sourceforge.net/projects/qblade/)
• SANDIA Wind Energy Tools
(https://energy.sandia.gov/energy/renewable-
energy/wind-power/wind-resources/wind-software-
downloads/)
• https://globalwindatlas.info/
• http://niwe.res.in:8080/WindResource/
Courtesy: Google Images

19. We would love to share with you,
the little we know
Bose Sumantraa
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bosesumantraa/
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bose_Sumantraa2
bose.sumantraa@gmail.com

21. Expect Pain, Challenges,
Disappointments, Hardships,
Failures etc …
Just Persist